Posted Without (Much) Comment

I normally don't "do" awards. Well, not gracefully, anyway. I'll invoke the "consider the source" exception in this case, to wit:

Here are the rules associated with this award:

The blogger who receives this award believes in the Tao of the zombie chicken - excellence, grace and persistence in all situations, even in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. These amazing bloggers regularly produce content so remarkable that their readers would brave a raving pack of zombie chickens just to be able to read their inspiring words. As a recipient of this world-renowned award, you now have the task of passing it on to at least 5 other worthy bloggers. Do not risk the wrath of the zombie chickens by choosing unwisely or not choosing at all!

Those are the kind of rules I could possibly live with, excluding the first four sentences. Oops! There are only four sentences! Well, I like the spirit of the thing, anyway. At least, I like the mental picture of all of you running like hell through a barnyard crammed full of zombie chickens in order to get to my stuff. I think I'd like the mental picture even more if some of you were naked. Let me see.

(short pause to visualize you naked)

Yes, it was pretty good - except when Buck, Stu, and Chris Mauger entered the picture. Just for that, they're the first three who'll get this award when I'm handing it out at the end. That means there are still two of you who should be very afraid, despite how good you look naked, unless you send me actual photos of you naked, but that hasn't gotten me too many naked photos in the past, so why should I expect anything different now?

That would be Jim speaking, in his highly entertaining and peerless manner (I would have said "inimitable," but this would be the second consecutive post where I refer to two different blog-buds as "inimitable," which would be below par*, damaged, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, exceptionable, half-baked*, ill-favored, improper, inadmissible, insupportable, lousy*, not up to snuff, or otherwise unacceptable. Ain't the thesaurus grand?). I told Jim in comments at his place that I would simply play this straight... due to the fact I was up all night and slept until (nearly) the crack o'noon and am thus somewhat writing-challenged at this hour. That's all true, ya know.

I'll deviate from the rules by not naming five additional recipients (you may all thank me now...don't wait for later). THIS chicken shall not cross the road. But you, Gentle Reader, should hie your fine self off to Jim's and read. He's about the funniest person in my sidebar, if not on this whole danged collection of inter-tubes. I mean that.